'''''Star Trek: Communicator''''' was the main publication of the ''[[Official Star Trek Fan Club]]''. An evolution from ''[[Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine]]'', ''Communicator'' was a bimonthly [[magazines|magazine]], and began releasing with [[Star Trek: Communicator issue 100|issue 100]] &ndash; continuing the issue numbering from its predecessor.

'''''Star Trek: Communicator''''' was the main publication of the ''[[Official Star Trek Fan Club]]''. An evolution from ''[[Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine]]'', ''Communicator'' was a bimonthly [[magazines|magazine]], and began releasing with [[Star Trek: Communicator issue 100|issue 100]] &ndash; continuing the issue numbering from its predecessor.

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On {{d|9|February|2001}}, [[Decipher]] purchased the assets of [[FANtastic Media]], including the fan club, and continued publication of ''Communicator''. In 2005, the company announced the cancellation of the magazine after issue 155, citing complaints about subscription mailing delays as well as threats of lawsuits; the underlying cause was financial, due to the collapse of the card gaming industry that was Decipher's mainstay. [http://www.trektoday.com/news/051205_02.shtml] Attempts to revive the publication by creator/club founder [[Dan Madsen]] and managing editor [[Larry Nemecek]] have, to date, been unsuccessful.

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On {{d|9|February|2001}}, [[Decipher]] purchased the assets of [[FANtastic Media]], including the fan club, and continued publication of ''Communicator''. In 2005, the company announced the cancellation of the magazine after issue 155, citing complaints about subscription mailing delays as well as threats of lawsuits; the underlying cause was financial, due to the collapse of the card gaming industry that was Decipher's mainstay. {{TrekToday|news/051205_02.shtml}} Attempts to revive the publication by creator/club founder [[Dan Madsen]] and managing editor [[Larry Nemecek]] have, to date, been unsuccessful.

On 9 February2001, Decipher purchased the assets of FANtastic Media, including the fan club, and continued publication of Communicator. In 2005, the company announced the cancellation of the magazine after issue 155, citing complaints about subscription mailing delays as well as threats of lawsuits; the underlying cause was financial, due to the collapse of the card gaming industry that was Decipher's mainstay. [1] Attempts to revive the publication by creator/club founder Dan Madsen and managing editor Larry Nemecek have, to date, been unsuccessful.

Contents

Note: a concerted effort was made to group articles and interviews that shared similarities into sections, though both section contents as well as section headings changed several times during the publication run. A typical subdivision was:

The Decipher version of the magazine has seen at least one internationally released variant in the form of the edited Italian language Star Trek: La Rivista Ufficiale, which was published between 1997 and 2000 by Fanucci Editore. From 2000 onward, publication of the magazine was taken over by the official Italian Star Trek fanclub, STIC, with a restarted numbering as "(Inside) Star Trek magazine".

A number of limited edition cold-cast resin Star Trek starship miniatures were created for the fan club, measured from eight to twelve inches in length, and were sold through mail order in Star Trek Communicator magazines. These replicas were also sold at retail inside Las Vegas' Star Trek: The Experience. Editions were limited to 2500 models of each ship.